Police release CCTV footage after man described as white and in his 30s attacked woman in her 20s in Park Hall area.

An urgent police appeal has been launched to identify a man who is believed to have raped a woman in a racially aggravated attack.

West Midlands police were called to the Park Hall area of Walsall just after 7.15pm on Saturday after a woman was reported to be distressed in the street.

Officers established that the woman, in her 20s, had been raped and assaulted at a nearby property by a man she did not know, the force said.

It is confirmed that the incident is being treated as “racially aggravated”.

The attacker is described as white male, aged in his 30s, with short hair and wearing dark clothing at the time.

Police have released CCTV footage of the suspect and asked anyone who knows his identity to ring 999 immediately.

Det Supt Ronan Tyrer, of West Midlands police, said:

“This was an absolutely appalling attack on a young woman, and we are doing absolutely everything we can to arrest the person responsible.

“We have teams of officers recovering evidence and building a profile of the attacker so that he can be brought into custody as soon as possible.

“While we are following multiple lines of inquiry right now, it’s vital that we get to hear from anyone who saw a man acting suspiciously in the area at the time.

“It may be that you were driving through the area and have dashcam footage, or you have CCTV that we have not yet recovered. Your information could be the vital breakthrough that we need.

“At this stage we are not linking this attack to any other offences.”

This comes a month after a Sikh woman was raped in grassland on Tame Road, Oldbury, in an incident which was also racially aggravated by police.